[Buildroot] [PATCH 6/6] package/mtools: new host-package
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Mar 11 00:02:06 UTC 2013
Thomas, Luca, All,
On Sunday 10 March 2013 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 22:55:31 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>
> > +MTOOLS_VERSION = 4.0.18
> > +MTOOLS_SOURCE = mtools-$(MTOOLS_VERSION).tar.bz2
> > +MTOOLS_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/mtools/
>
> MTOOLS_LICENSE = GPLv3+
> MTOOLS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
Done.
> However, this makes me realize that we don't distinguish host packages
> from target packages in the manifest.csv file. For example, once I had
> the licensing informations for this mtools file, I have the following
> line in my manifest.csv:
>
> "mtools","4.0.18","GPLv3+","COPYING","mtools-4.0.18.tar.bz2"
>
> And then, someone might think "damn, I have some GPLv3 software in my
> system, I now need to comply with the additional special requirements
> of GPLv3", while in fact it's not the case (as far as I know) because
> mtools is not distributed on the embedded device. Maybe we need to
> explicit which packages are on the target, which packages are on the
> host, and which packages are on both, no?
Yes, fully agreed; this would be very puzzling.
I would suggest that we not install licensing information about host
packages, unless they are also used on the target.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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